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Where to start…. Micron just hit a landmine that’s going to send alot of storage companies back to the board room to reconsider what’s best for their service. Without a doubt the fastest SSD on the planet right now is going to be the Micron 9650 which is already sampling and reaching unbelievable speeds of 28GB/s. To give you an idea how fast this is, a 100GB file theoretically should download as fast as 3.5714 seconds in ideal conditions. And then we have the Micron 7600 which should be the first Gen5x4 data center SSD claiming under 1ms access time for low latency. And not to forget the Micron 6600 ION which will be available in a whopping 122TB.
MICRON 9650 GEN 6 SSD
The Micron 9650 is officially the first Gen 6 SSD available to data centers and sampling to Micron customers now. Performance on this SSD is listed at 28GB/.s read and 14GB/s write with up to 5.5 million IOPS read and 530K IOPS write at low 4K random disk access. That accounts for 100% better throughput and 120% better IOPS than the previous generation.
Better yet, Micron tested two 9650 SSDs utilizing Direct Storage via the Astera labs Scorpio Gen6 switch to a NVidia H100 GPU and, although the maximum speed of 28GB/s was achieved from SSDs to the Scorpio, the speed from the Scorpio to the GPU hit an aamazing 56GB/s. The icing on the cake for the 9650 is that it is liquid cooling ready as it should be in today’s AI servers which are already using liquid cooling for their CPU/GPU’s.
MICRON 7600 GEN 5 SSD
The Micron 7600 is a Gen 5 data center SSD and it is available in E3.S, U2 and E1.S form factors. It is available in PRO and MAX models with a total of eight capacity points. The PRO has a 5-year warranty with endurance of 1DWPD (drive write per day) while the MAX has the same warranty with up to 3DWPD. This SSD reaches a high of 12GB/s at all capacity points read and as high as 7GB/s write which is variable.
The beauty of this SSD though lies in what also may be an industry first as it has an access time of under 1ms. This SSD speaks to higher energy efficiency and lower latency. We sincerely hope Micron doesn’t mind us altering their confidential slide to remove competitors identification, however, we thought this was too good to set aside.
MICRON 6600 ION GEN 5 SSD
Last but not least, we have the Micron 6600 ION which is available in 30, 61 and 122TB capacities in both the U.2 and E3.S form factors. This SSD is as pure Micron as one can get with Micron controller, NAND, DRAM, firmware and manufacturing. It’s performance is listed at 14GB/s read for all capacities and a high of 3GB/s write which is variable. IOPS are also listed at 2 million read and up to 100,000 IOPS write, again depending on capacity.
The beauty of the 6600 ION truly is the capacity though. The E3.S form factor at the 122TB capacity can fill a 1U server to 2.4PB, or a 2U server to 4.42PB and saves 37% power consumption compared to a similar HDD configuration.
Oh…. and did we mention that all of these SSDs are loaded with Microns latest G9 3D TLC NAND flash memory with an I/O transfer rate of 3.6GB/s in a 11.5mm x 13.5mm footprint? ?
“With the industry’s first PCIe Gen6 SSD, industry-leading capacities and the lowest latency mainstream SSD—all powered by our first-to-market G9 NAND—Micron is not just setting the pace; we are redefining the frontier of data center innovation,” said Jeremy Werner, senior vice president and general manager of Micron’s Core Data Center Business Unit. “This launch cements our leadership in data center SSDs and signals a new era of performance, density and efficiency for our customers.”
Stay tuned as we head out to Flash memory Summit on Monday for a closer look!